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Long walk. The grocery trek. One dollar for a head of lettuce and a box of granola bars. One dollar and four cents for some fancy pasta. Two dollars worth of local salami and two more for a dozen eggs. It’s like a game. The super bonus level is not getting anything that won’t be consumed in the immediate future, or finding things that pair with things that need to be used up. At home, substitions, a sugar for another sugar, fats interchangeable, creativity with starches.

This week I will make a vegan ceasar salad, banana pancakes with strawberry honey. I will empty a jam jar and maybe a mustard jar too.

My best friend is coming to visit and we will attempt to drink the last of my wine and hard stuff before a night on the town, a farewell kind of tour.

All of this emptying is a distraction, a way to pass the time. I am so ready to be done.